Procrastination Assessment
~3 min · 12 questions · Free partial report
Twelve statements about how you handle deadlines, decisions, and tasks, on a five-point scale. Captures chronic procrastination — the irrational delay of intended actions. Three factors: decisional delay, implemental delay, and timeliness.
Twelve items measuring chronic procrastination across three dimensions.
- Find out whether you are a chronic procrastinator and where the delay happens.
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What this test measures
Decisional Delay
Implemental Delay
Timeliness
Discover where you stand on each dimension.
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What you receive.
Radar chart with percentiles. Illustrative example.
Executive Summary
"You present a profile marked by high intellectual curiosity and above-average conscientiousness, with moderate extraversion and balanced emotional reactivity. This combination suggests someone who seeks novelty in a disciplined way."
Illustrative example.
Scale analysis
The Complete Report details the practical meaning of each score in 3 to 5 paragraphs, personalized by your combined profile. It is not a generic text by range; the analysis crosses all dimensions to generate specific observations about you.
Applied recommendations
Practical recommendations by area (career, relationships, studies, self-care), based on your combined profile. Certificate with verifiable QR, printable or savable as PDF.
Why trust this instrument.
The Pure Procrastination Scale (Steel, 2010) measures chronic procrastination with 12 items on a 5-point scale. Three factors: decisional delay, implemental delay, and timeliness. All positively keyed. Alpha = .92 (N > 4,000). Strongly correlated with other procrastination measures.
- Authors:
- Steel
- Year:
- 2010
Percentiles and T-scores shown are provisional, based on synthetic reference data until real norms accumulate.
- Steel, P. (2010). Arousal, avoidant and decisional procrastinators: Do they exist? Personality and Individual Differences, 48(8), 926-934.
The theory behind this test.
Temporal Motivation Theory
Procrastination is the voluntary, irrational delay of an intended course of action despite expecting to be worse off for the delay. Temporal motivation theory explains it as a failure of self-regulation where the utility of a task drops as its deadline recedes and competing temptations are temporally closer. The theory integrates expectancy, value, impulsiveness and delay into a single equation.
Learn more about this theory →Target Audience
Adults (16+)
Recommended ages: 16+
Questions the report answers.
Do you put off making decisions?
High scorers delay decisions even with enough information.
Do you delay acting on decisions?
High scorers decide but fail to follow through.
Are you generally on time?
Low scorers frequently miss deadlines.
Who benefits most.
Students and knowledge workers
People with self-directed deadlines.
People working on self-improvement
Anyone who wants a clear measure of their procrastination.
Frequently asked questions
What does this test measure?
Chronic procrastination — the habitual, irrational delay of tasks you intend to do.
Is procrastination the same as laziness?
No. Procrastination is an intention-action gap, not a lack of motivation.
How long does it take?
About 2–3 minutes.
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This test is a self-knowledge tool for informational purposes. It does not constitute a psychological or clinical diagnosis and does not replace evaluation by a qualified professional. The report indicates the AI model used in text generation.
Published by Steel (2010), items freely available.